【每日阅读训练第四期——速度越障20系列】【20-12】文史哲

ElenW

大家好！这次作业来的晚了点儿哈！不过大家正好可以好好睡一觉然后明天起来做撒！！！哈对了 怎么突然多了这么多的铁板XX啊~~~我有错过什么了吗@@  对了 跟大家分享一首歌吧 #Tears always win#我觉得还不错哈 反正在这里遇见的都是天南地北的孩子大人 累了啊或者不想干事情的时候就听听歌跑跑步 换个心情吧 加油！
父亲节 记得给爸爸打电话哦大家！
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[Time1]
Reformist-backed cleric Hassan Rouhani has won Iran's presidential election, securing just over 50% of the vote and so avoiding the need for a run-off.
Tehran Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf was well behind in second place.
A turnout of 72.2% was registered of the 50 million Iranians who were eligible to vote for a successor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Crowds gathered in Tehran to hail the victory of Mr Rouhani, who has pledged greater engagement with Western powers.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is scheduled to ratify the vote on 3 August.
The new president will then take the oath in parliament.
Ayatollah Khamenei congratulated Mr Rouhani on his victory.
"I urge everyone to help the president-elect and his colleagues in the government, as he is the president of the whole nation," he said.
'Different course'
Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar announced that Mr Rouhani had won 18,613,329 of the 36,704,156 votes cast. This represented 50.71% of the vote.
The UK Foreign Office responded to Mr Rouhani's victory by urging him to "set Iran on a different course for the future: addressing international concerns about Iran's nuclear programme... and improving the political and human rights situation for the people of Iran".
France said it was "ready to work" with the new leader.
One of Mr Rouhani's main pledges was to try to ease international sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear programme.
Iran has been suffering economic hardship, with rising unemployment, a devalued currency and soaring inflation.
Endorsement
Voting had been extended by five hours on Friday evening to allow more people to cast their ballots.
Although all six candidates were seen as conservatives, analysts say Mr Rouhani - a 64-year-old cleric often described as "moderate" who has held several parliamentary posts and served as chief nuclear negotiator - has been reaching out to reformists in recent days.
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[Time2]
The surge of support for him came after Mohammad Reza Aref, the only reformist candidate in the race, announced on Tuesday that he was withdrawing on the advice of pro-reform ex-President Mohammad Khatami.
Mr Rouhani thus went into polling day with the endorsement of two ex-presidents - Mr Khatami and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who was disqualified from the race by the powerful Guardian Council, a 12-member body of theologians and jurists.
The hardline candidates included Mr Qalibaf - who is seen as a pragmatic conservative - and nuclear negotiator Mr Jalili - who is said to be very close to Ayatollah Khamenei.
The other three candidates were Mr Rezai, a former head of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, former Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati, and former Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Gharazi.
After the last presidential election in June 2009, millions of Iranians took to the streets to demand a rerun, when the supreme leader dismissed claims by the three defeated candidates of widespread fraud.
No foreign observers monitored this year's election and there have also been concerns that media coverage in the run-up has been unfair.
Many reformist newspapers have been shut down, access to the internet and foreign broadcasters has been restricted, and journalists have been detained.
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[Time3]
A widely circulated series of photos of aspiring beauty queens reveals once again just how obsessed Korean women are with plastic surgery.
Pictures of the 20 Miss Korea 2013 finalists were posted on Reddit, a user-generated news and entertainment website, fuelling speculation that many of them had gone under the knife because they looked eerily the same.
All of the contestants have dark, long hair; fair, pale skin; big eyes and a perfect, bright white smile. Their faces are oval with sharp, pointed chins that seem to have undergone a certain procedure called “V-line surgery”.
Reddit user HotBrownie, who claims to come from Seoul, was quoted by UK newspaper the Daily Mail as saying: “Those women in fact do look unnervingly similar. This is called the Korean plastic face look. In certain areas of Seoul, you would think all the women are sisters because they look so similar.”
The photos may be the result of Photoshop, but they still show that the contemporary concept of female beauty in South Korea is highly monotonous and conforms to a single ideal.
The Atlantic magazine carried a photo of Miss Korea in 1960. Her face is round and full, her nose is flat and her eyes are small. Back then, women were expected to enhance their natural beauty instead of changing their physical features. But now, beauty contest teams often have a consulting plastic surgeon on hand.
South Koreans have more plastic surgery than people in any other nation, according to figures released by the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.
One in every 77 South Koreans has turned to the knife or needle. Last year, 20 percent of women aged 19 to 49 in Seoul admitted to having had some form of cosmetic surgery.
Many women have had their eyes and noses done — making their eyes look bigger with double eyelids and their noses smaller and higher. The result is a more Western look.
This dissatisfaction with their ethnic features has prompted some to describe South Koreans’ obsession with plastic surgery as “self-racism”. But, as an article in The Atlantic points out, it’s more complicated than that.。
A powerful consumer culture over the past two decades has led to Korean women equating beauty with professional and economic success. In South Korea, the value of beauty is upfront and open. Employers scrutinize the looks of applicants in addition to their professional qualifications.
“It’s not enough just to have a certain skill set,” Sharon Hejiin Lee, a cultural analysis scholar at New York University, told The Atlantic. “You have to be beautiful as well. After the Korean economic crisis in 1997, competition for jobs led to the surgery boom; people trying to get a leg up in the job market any way they can.”
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[Time4]
Does a government have the right to snoop around its citizens’ privacy on the pretext of protecting the country from terrorism? The US has been debating this question in the past few days.
On June 9, a 29-year-old former CIA employee admitted responsibility for one of the most extraordinary leaks of classified information in US history. Edward Snowden told The Guardian he exposed the documents because he thinks Americans should know how the government has intruded on their privacy.
“I can’t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, Internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building,” Snowden told The Guardian in an interview.
The development was the latest in a week that saw unauthorized publication of a “Top Secret” order from the US’ Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to authorize collection of domestic telephone records; internal documents and detailed descriptions of a US National Security Agency (NSA) program code-named PRISM that can obtain data on foreigners from US Internet companies; a directive from US President Barack Obama ordering preparation of a secret target list for cyber-warfare; and a digital map of the world that shows where the NSA spies the most.
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[Time5]
The Guardian said Snowden decided to leak the classified material three weeks ago while working in Hawaii. It said he copied the documents and then told a supervisor that he needed to go away for several weeks due to medical treatment. He left for Hong Kong on May 20.In the Guardian interview, Snowden identified himself as an infrastructure analyst at an NSA facility in Hawaii for Booz Allen Hamilton, a major defense contractor. He previously worked for the CIA as a systems administrator and telecommunications systems officer.
Snowden described enjoying a comfortable lifestyle and a career that included a $200,000 (1.23 million yuan) annual salary, and a home in Hawaii that he shared with his girlfriend.
The Guardian said Snowden is considering seeking asylum in Iceland. Hong Kong media reported that Snowden checked out of his hotel room in Kowloon on Monday. His whereabouts are unknown, but he is believed to still be in the city.
Snowden told The Guardian that he’s willing to stand behind his actions in public because he knows he has done nothing wrong. “My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them,” he said.
The Guardian said Snowden is so worried about surveillance that he pads his hotel room door with pillows to prevent eavesdropping and drapes a hood over his head and laptop to avoid password detection by hidden cameras.
“I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things,” he said in the interview. “We collect more digital communications from Americans than we do from the Russians.”
James R. Clapper, the director of the US’ National Intelligence, said on June 8 that the Justice Department had launched an investigation into what he called “reckless disclosures of intelligence community measures used to keep Americans safe”, he told NBC during an interview.
The Obama administration has prosecuted six people for illegal disclosures of classified information — more than all other administrations combined. Also, a military court-martial is underway for Bradley Manning, a former US Army intelligence officer. He’s accused of violating the Espionage Act by giving a large number of classified US military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
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OBSTACLE
“HI THERE,” a pair of flirtatious grannies coo at the governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, with much waving of red-taloned hands. “You’re skinny,” they cry, referring to the pounds he has lost since having gastric-band surgery earlier this year. (He now looks more like a panda than a grizzly.) The grannies cackle at their daring, and are rewarded with a blown kiss.
Mr Christie was on the campaign trail on June 10th, squeezed onto a tiny stage in a rain-lashed tent on a closed-off street in Union City, a scruffy suburb across the Hudson river from Manhattan, a world away. Up for re-election in November, the Republican governor was in Union City to be endorsed by the mayor, a Democrat, as a salsa band shivered and pensioners eyed a free Cuban buffet cooling on a side table.
If a second term as governor were his only goal, Mr Christie would not need to try so hard. He could win the race in a stroll—polls put him way ahead—without a single vote from Union City, a Democratic stronghold. But he has national ambitions, so he wants to win by the biggest margin possible. A Republican in a state won easily by Barack Obama, he is working to scoop up Democratic endorsements, which are vital for impressing swing voters watching the evening news.
He is also keen to reduce the number of diehard Democrats who vote in November. Hence his crafty response to the recent death of Frank Lautenberg, one of New Jersey’s two Democratic senators. He used his powers as governor to appoint a Republican replacement (national Republicans would not have forgiven him anything else). But in a gift to Democrats, the new senator will serve only a few months, rather than the rest of Mr Lautenberg’s term. And Mr Christie arranged for a fresh Senate election to be held expensively in October, so as not to coincide with his own race. That way, he avoids facing the extra Democrats who will turn out to vote for Cory Booker, the celebrity mayor of Newark, who is expected to win the Senate seat. It is vintage Christie: a dash of bipartisanship on a dollop of self-interest.
Mr Christie is big box office. Within New Jersey, he is the tax-cutter who said public-sector pay and perks should shrink—and meant it. He has picked verbal brawls with teachers’ unions and anyone else who gets in his way. Nationally, he is popular, with high net approval ratings from Republicans and Democrats, though a hefty minority of Republicans loathe him. Audiences know him as a finger-jabbing, cut-the-crap Republican who defied his party to take Mr Obama round towns wrecked by Hurricane Sandy, days before the 2012 election (handing a propaganda gift to the president, conservatives growled). He cracks weight gags with late-night TV hosts. He is a Bruce Springsteen fanatic who longed for The Boss to like him back (and wept after the leftish singer hugged him at a Sandy benefit concert).
Nobody doubts that he covets the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. And because to his party’s Taliban wing he is an apostate—eg, he supports some gun controls, backs immigration reform, nominated a gay man to the state Supreme Court and has signed New Jersey up to Obamacare’s expansion of health coverage for the poor—he has only one path through the primary process. That is to be the Republican who won re-election in a Democratic state by 20 points or more. Then he can ask his party if they prefer purity or winning.
Obstacles loom. Quite a lot of Republicans, especially the sort who vote in primaries, think that conservative purity could be a fine route to victory, if their party ever had the gumption to try it. More worryingly for Mr Christie, not everyone in America adores New Jersey, from its manners to its endemic corruption. The fact that as a federal prosecutor Mr Christie indicted more than a hundred public officials is impressive, but it reminds folks that he looks like a character from “The Sopranos”.
Mr Christie is one of several north-easterners who dream of becoming president. Take the Amtrak train from Washington, DC to Boston, and at half a dozen stops a local champion is being talked of as a contender, from Vice-President Joe Biden in Delaware to the Democratic governors of Maryland, New York and Massachusetts (Hillary Clinton, with homes in Washington and upstate New York, makes six, though she is more inter-galactic than local nowadays).
The north-east, graveyard of White House bids
Yet the road from the north-east to the White House is narrow and steep. Remember Mitt Romney? Or John Kerry? Or Michael Dukakis? North-easterners are not like other Americans. They go to church less, own fewer guns and drink more wine. Six of the eight Amtrak corridor states have abolished the death penalty and six allow gay marriage. North-eastern cities and suburbs harbour an endangered species: fiscally conservative, socially liberal Republicans. The Christie pitch is that he can win over north-eastern moderates, but is not one of them. He sells himself not as a centrist but as a problem-solving conservative, impatient with party labels. That is too glib: there are points of real difference in politics, as he knows. Over the years, he has hardened his stance on such issues as abortion and blurred it on others, such as climate change, in line with Republican taboos.
Mr Christie’s advisers say he will win New Jersey with a coalition of Republicans, independents, fiscally conservative Democrats and skilled workers. Though they will not talk of the White House, that certainly sounds like a national battle-plan.
In essence, New Jersey’s rumpled, charming, bullying governor embodies a bet: that the Republicans must develop a bipartisan appeal, or perish. Perhaps he will fall flat once he leaves his beloved New Jersey. But he is becoming the most interesting Republican of the 2016 pack.
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Cybill

擦楼主和楼上真早，，我现在读脑子还不清醒呢。。
1. 2'39 HR won the election as a reformist-back cleric.
2. 1'55 Who support HR and who are rivals. May the election is not fair in some place.
3. 整容把韩国女的都整一个样子了，they thought PF as self-racism. when women find job in Korean, they need beauty as well as professional qualifications.
4. 1'48 who and why S revealed the fact to American.
5. 2'57 Interview content. Obama prosecute six people.

铁板吗啡

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5’03（量太大，承受不起啊…不晓得怎么写结构，先弄个小结）
感觉一直围绕来自NEW JERSEY的CC说他垂延美国总统的位置，正在热身州选，然后自己是个republican，但是各种democrat style，然后各种description，最后就说不管最后竞选成没成，他已经是2016年大选最有意思的republican了。

kimwang53

elen辛苦啦

kimwang53

iamyingjie 发表于 2013-6-16 03:42
谢谢elen. 难得没人和我抢沙发了～

被时差党们抢到前排了

cherryyyy

1-1:43
R has won Iran’s presidential election and the problems he will face.
2-1:30
Introduction of other candidates and public concern about the fairness of the election
3-2:27
1.Pictures of Miss Korea showed that many of the girls looked the same and may gone     under the knife.
2. There is a higher portion than other nations among women who took a Plastic Surgery
3. In addition to dissatisfaction with their ethnic features, stress in job market may be       another reason.
4-1:03
A recent debate about whether the government have the right to snoop around its citizens’  privacy because a former CIA exposed one of the most extraordinary leaks in US history.
5- 2:17
A description of an event that A former employer of CIA leaked the classified material of  United States.
Obstacle 6:20
1. C dream to be the president of United States.
2.The efforts he has made to become a president.
3.However ,the road to White House is narrow and steep.

dingdingtop

Time 1: 3'06.07
Reformist Rouhani won the voting in Iran by winning over 50% votes. Baqer was in second place. People gathered to celebrate this winning. Us govenment hope that Rouhani could work on Iran's nuclear issue and improve Iran's economic situation. Although all candidates are conservatives, they were all supposed to take certain reform actions.




Time 2: 1'15''18
The only reformist candidate withdrew the race and the voting process seems to be unfair with all reformist media are restricted.


Time 3:2'53''19
Women in South Korea restort to plastic surgeon to become beautiful, even in a beauty competition. A large fraction of SK women has been through a beauth surgeon to get prettier and get more job oppotunities given fierece job market.


Time4: 1'14''21
Edward Snowden does not agree that any govenment should violate its citizen's privacy in name of protecting the country from terrorism by getting information from internet companies, maps etc.




Time 5: 3'08''97
Describe the why Edward wanted to disclose classified information and how. Then give other examples on how US govenment treat its citiczens and those who reveal their secrets.




Obstacle: 6'30''38
Chris Christie, a Republician from northeast of US, is a strong competitor for 2016 vote.




第一天跟阅读小分队心得：速读还可以，大概意思能懂，细节有点记不住。障碍太多不认识的单词，有些造成阅读障碍了，读完云里雾里。